Re: Geographic location representations?

We did not write the draft specifically for the charter. But I think the
draft is related to the first sentence of the charter. In my
understandings, there is a commonly used geodesic datum (i.e. WGS84) but not
an already standardized representation format which is universal and
interoperable. I think that "selecting a format to represent location per
se" is not a simple task per se.

Regards,

Kenji
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com>
To: "Kenji Takahashi" <takahashi.kenji@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: <geopriv@mail.apps.ietf.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: Geographic location representations?

> > draft-korkea-aho-spatial-dataset-01.txt
>
> for those of us who are easily confused, it would help if you could
explain
> where this document fits into the charter of the wg, which can be found at
> http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/geopriv-charter.html.
>
> is it
>
> In addition, the working group will select an already standardized
> format to recommend for use in representing location per se. A key
task
> will be to enhance this format and protocol approaches using the
> enhanced format, to ensure that the security and privacy methods are
> available to diverse location-aware applications. Approaches to be
> considered will include (among others) data formats incorporating
fields
> directing the privacy handling of the location information and
possible
> methods of specifying variable precision of location.
>
> thanks!
>
> randy
Received on Wed Jun 27 02:31:28 2001